Developers
These are the guys behind BlackRay, spending much or most of their time in this project.
Felix Schupp
Felix is the project sponsor and original initiator.
Thomas Wunschel
Thomas is the lead developer for blackray.
Andreas Meyer
Andi is responsible for the initial ports and currently is working on the documentation system.
Frank Fielder
Frank is currently finishing his PhD at Ludwig Maximilian Universität Munich.
Christian Reinke
Chris is developing the Web-based BlackRay Explorer frontend, named “Remora“.
Contributors
All of us greatly appreciate the time and efforts of others spent on this project. We encourage everybody to contribute and make this project grow.
Mike Alexeev is the first outside contributor to Blackray. He is an excellent C++ guy responsible for the SQL parser, and the rewrite using Quex/Lemon. He has done the Python port and is the brain behind the function backendrefactoring.
Souvik Roy is an intern at SoftMethod and a fulltime contributor to Blackray. He is an excellent developer and pushes the Benchmarking and samples to make BlackRay better understandable.
Past Developers
These people have been involved in the past. We would like to express our thanks for their contributions, many heads and hands are required to make such a complex system happen.
Andreas “Andy ” Strafner developed some of the sample programs and was the driving force behind the standardized loader and data description language.
Christoph Keller was engaged in the early porting phase, and helped us debug many loader issues. Thanks!


